BrickLink Designer Program Round 1 Now Live
The first round of crowdfunding for the BrickLink Designer Program is now live. A small selection of LEGO® Ideas projects which achieved 10,000 votes but didn’t make it beyond the product review stage have been chosen to become sets through BrickLink. The first round now includes 7 sets that can be pre-ordered, the Mountain View Observatory has been moved to a future round. The first of these projects to reach 3,000 pre-orders...
BrickLink Designer Program First Round Projects Revealed
Today, BrickLink announces the first round of crowdfunding for the BrickLink Designer Program. This gives various previous 10K LEGO Ideas project which didn’t make the cut, another chance to be turned into buildable sets. The first round of 8 sets can be pre-ordered from July 1st. The first of these projects to reach 3,000 pre-orders will be produced by BrickLink. Check out the first 8 projects below. Announcing the first round...
Kicking Off The BrickLink Designer Program 2021
Late last year, the LEGO Group have announced a collaboration between LEGO® Ideas and BrickLink where they’ll be giving past 10K designs from LEGO Ideas, a second chance of being a set via the BrickLink Designer Program. This is similar to the 60th Anniversary AFOL Designer Program. With so many fan designs hitting 10K, it’s inevitable that not all of them can be turned into retail sets. The BrickLink Designer Program will see...
BrickLink Could Bring Rejected Ideas Project Back
Today, the LEGO Group have announced a collaboration between LEGO® Ideas and BrickLink where they’ll be moving forward with a pilot to realize more of the 10K designs from LEGO Ideas via the BrickLink Designer Program (formerly known as AFOL Designer Program). Many of the 10K fan designs that we’ve unfortunately not been able to produce over the years set have a passionate fanbase, who would love to see these project...
Bring LEGO To Life With LEGO Games & Unity
If there’s one thing that LEGO® Games and the world’s leading 3D content development platform, Unity, can agree on, it’s that creativity comes in all forms – whether it’s bringing your creation to life with LEGO® bricks or adding lines of code to develop a video game. Game development can be intimidating for some, but Unity helps lower this obstacle with its series of Microgames – guided experiences designed to get new users...
Celebrating 20 Years Of BrickLink
Yesterday marked the 20 anniversary of the BrickLink platform. Since the set was created Daniel Jezek, it has become a major part of the LEGO® community. From offering a place to find LEGO elements to creating fan built MOCs. In recent times it was also announced that BrickLink was purchased by the LEGO Group, with varying levels of excitement. As BrickLink celebrates 20 years, starting next week, there will be a focus on how the site...
LEGO Group To Close Sohobricks
When the LEGO Group purchased BrickLink late last year it also acquired Sohobricks. They produced a range of LEGO-like elements for artist and businesses. After careful consideration, it has been decided that the company will be closed down. LEGO® has provided a statement regarding the decision below. This news doesn’t affect any other part of the current LEGO businesses or BrickLink. Information from the LEGO Group regarding...
Bricklink Hosting Ask Me Anything
Back in November it was announced that the LEGO Group were in the process of acquiring BrickLink, and the reaction has been overwhelming negative. So to help ease some of the concerns the LEGO® community has, starting today, Julia Goldin will announce an AMA (ask me anything) which the LEGO Group will host on BrickLink. The AMA will be running until Friday morning on January 31st 2020 and here BrickLink members have the opportunity...
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